Wow, Mayan temple indeed, hopefully no blood-letting required. There was a large Godrej machine at yesterday's Type-Out here in ABQ that resembles this Halda and the SG1, including easily removable carriage. Hopefully an interview video of it and its owner, forthcoming soon.

Great looking typewriter. I really like the typeface and the badge. I have a Lettera 22 that even after cleaning and lubricating takes a great amount of hammering compared to the great touch of many other typewriters.

To this day my chief typewriter regret was not snagging a Halda portable at a thrift store. It was just out of my price range. But had I known I still would not have encountered another one in the wild two years later, it would have been an easy buy. May the typewriter gods look upon me favorably!